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Fayçal Baghriche

Wenn du ins Feuer guckst...

27 Oct - 15 Dec 2012

Fayçal Baghriche transforms the public realm into a venue for startling transgressions, absurd scenarios, and minimalist actions tinged with humour. He draws on fundamental principles of image rhetoric such as subtraction, inversion or acceleration, resulting in works that question the schema that organizes human societies – an invitation to critically re-think concepts of identity and everyone's quest to belong to a singular politic, social or religious membership.

Faycal Baghriche Wenn Du

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Fayçal Baghriche, Wenn du ins Feuer guckst, 2012, printed tarpaulin in lightbox, 200 x 240 cm

Baghriche sees himself as a collector of narratives and objects. Wenn du ins Feuer guckst is an advertisement taken from the public realm and completely degraded by the sun. The artist is interested in the parallelism of what occurred to the image in the public realm and what the image actually shows.

Faycal Baghriche Family Friendly 1

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Fayçal Baghriche, Family Friendly (Conn.des.arts.Mars.2012.p123), 2012, two pages taken from two different copies of a magazine, framed, each 31 x 23,5 cm

The series Family Friendly consists of a collection of diptyques of images taken from international art magazines found in Dubai. In the UAE, like in many Muslim countries, images of nudity are prohibited in the public sphere and are hidden underneath hand-made ink marks. Baghriche has extracted an identical image from two different copies of the same magazine to produce a diptyque that shows the action of the hand on the magazine. Each image becomes unique. The artist is interested in the aesthetic value of these new objects, artworks made by people who are not artists.

Faycal Baghriche Family Friendly 2

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Fayçal Baghriche, Family Friendly (Art.Forum.Summer.2012.p54), 2012 Two pages taken from two different copies of a magazine, framed , each 28,5 x 28,5 cm

The series Family Friendly consists of a collection of diptyques of images taken from international art magazines found in Dubai. In the UAE, like in many Muslim countries, images of nudity are prohibited in the public sphere and are hidden underneath hand-made ink marks. Baghriche has extracted an identical image from two different copies of the same magazine to produce a diptyque that shows the action of the hand on the magazine. Each image becomes unique. The artist is interested in the aesthetic value of these new objects, artworks made by people who are not artists.
Faycal Baghriche Akoah

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Fayçal Baghriche, Akoah, 2012, wax, plaster, 93 x 36 x 55 cm

Akoah also raises the question of how a found object functions in a new context. The figure (h: 93 cm) is the mold of a rescue dummy used in swimming pools for rescue training. Baghriche’s cast is made of the wax, which normally disappears during the process of casting bronze. Seen in a new context and with the wax pipes, which are objects used in the intermediary process of casting, still in place the vacuous expression of the figure opens up a space of new evaluation and interpretation.
Faycal Baghriche Souvenir

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Fayçal Baghriche, Souvenir, 2012, terrestrial globe, motor, ø 40cm, h 75 cm

The artist‘s role as a collector of narratives and objects is highlighted in his work Souvenir, an illuminated terrestrial globe, which has been fitted with a motor and turns so fast that it is impossible to make out the contours of the continents and the demarcations of the countries.